Natalia Mamonova

Natalia Mamonova is a senior researcher at RURALIS. Her research focuses on rural politics, agrarian transformation, social movements, food sovereignty and right-wing populism in post-socialist rural Europe. She received her PhD degree from Erasmus University, the Netherlands in 2016. Since then, she was a researcher/lecturer at the University of Oxford, the New Europe College in Bucharest, the University of Helsinki, and the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies. Her current research at RURALIS is largely focused on the impact of the war in Ukraine on the Ukrainian and global food systems. Among her recent publications are: Mamonova and Varga (2025) European future for Ukrainian agriculture (policy brief); Mamonova, Borodina and Kuns (2023) Ukrainian agriculture in wartime. Resilience, reforms, and markets (Longread); Mamonova, Wengle and Dankevych (2023) Queen of the fields in wartime: what can Ukrainian corn tell us about the resilience of the global food system? (academic article); Mamonova (2023) Food sovereignty and solidarity initiatives in Ukraine during the war (academic article).